Schizophrenia Argumentative Analysis

A well-known disorder in the world of mental disorders is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder or disease that occurs in early adulthood. The word schizophrenia means “split mind” referring to the cognitive imbalance of behavior and emotions in an individual. Individuals that suffered schizophrenia may lead to a poor quality of life and have a hard time becoming productive people of society. People who suffer this disorder have less gray matter than other individuals and have less brain activity in certain places of the brain. Schizophrenia symptoms can be divided between positive symptoms like delusions and hallucinations, or negative symptoms like flat or blunted effect. In this article the focus is on negative symptoms of schizophrenia divided in two factors: apathy and diminished expression. Diminish expression is less explained, rather apathy becomes the sole focus of this study.
According to the article people who suffer this disorder have a deficit of options that impede them from decision-making and acting in a …show more content…
Effectiveness over quantity. What is helpful in society and effective versus stagnated and futile. Although the study didn’t reach a way to help make schizophrenic people life productive, it help by making an understanding of the difficultness people with this disorder have in contrast to normal people. The negative symptoms may be a backtrack for individuals. Their disorganized behavior will consist of straying away from goal-directed activities. This appears as a decline in ac activities in daily living, unpredictable agitation or silliness, lack of inhibition and impulse